Krillion Recorded answers
3,242 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work sector by sector, writing down four or five roles for each before judging any of them: ceremonial and religious duties, armed forces and emergency services, maritime and aviation work, healthcare, heavy industry, transport, hospitality, sport and entertainment. The obvious label in each sector is the weakest submission, so keep pushing toward the narrower version of it, the rank, the specialism, the single machine, the one event of the year. Titles that combine a task with a garment, a piece of equipment or a rank do well, and so do institutional names from outside the English-speaking world. Check each candidate against the plain test of whether the clothing is compulsory, then submit the strangest one you can honestly defend.
Get a hint
Start from the garment rather than the job: think of roles you would recognise across a room by a cap, an apron, a badge or a reflective stripe.
A little more
Then drop a level in every sector and note the posts nobody lists first: those tied to one ceremony, one vessel, one ward or one season of the year outscore the general label.
One step further
Finish with compound titles that fuse a duty with a detail of dress or kit, and with institutional names drawn from armed forces, religious communities and old households.
Reveal answers 3,242
- Aircraft powerplant repairerDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft powertrain repairerDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft structural repairerDeep Cut85points
- Aircrew flight equipment technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aircrew rescue swimmerDeep Cut85points
- Aircrew survival equipmentmanDeep Cut85points
- Airfield defence guardDeep Cut85points
- Airfield managerDeep Cut85points
- Airline cabin boyDeep Cut85points
- Airport firefighterDeep Cut85points
- Airport information agentDeep Cut85points
- Airport information assistantDeep Cut85points
- Airport operations officerDeep Cut85points
- Airports Security Force officer (Pakistan)Deep Cut85points
- Airship crewmanDeep Cut85points
- Airship pilotDeep Cut85points
- AIS computer operatorDeep Cut85points
- AizkolariDeep Cut85points
- AlguacilDeep Cut85points
- ALIMS specialistDeep Cut85points
- AllergistDeep Cut85points
- AlloymanDeep Cut85points
- Alpine skierDeep Cut85points
- Alternator attendantDeep Cut85points
- Aluminium granulatorDeep Cut85points
- Aluminium picklerDeep Cut85points
- Alysh wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Ama diverDeep Cut85points
- AmahDeep Cut85points
- Ambulance make-ready operativeDeep Cut85points
- Ambulance room attendantDeep Cut85points
- Ammunition specialistDeep Cut85points
- Amotekun operativeDeep Cut85points
- Amphibious vehicle crewmanDeep Cut85points
- Ampoule fillerDeep Cut85points
- Amputee footballerDeep Cut85points
- Anatomic PathologistDeep Cut85points
- AnchorerDeep Cut85points
- AndrologistDeep Cut85points
- Anesthesia technicianDeep Cut85points
- Anesthesiologist assistantDeep Cut85points
- Anganwadi workerDeep Cut85points
- Animal shelter workerDeep Cut85points
- Animal technicianDeep Cut85points
- Animal welfare inspectorDeep Cut85points
- Annealing furnace operatorDeep Cut85points
- AnodiserDeep Cut85points
- Ansar guardDeep Cut85points
- Anti-tank soldierDeep Cut85points
- AquaristDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is a rarity ladder, not a correctness test, which is why the same broad profession can land at the bottom while an obscure variant of it tops the table. Of 3242 recorded answers, 3161 reached at least sixty points, and almost all of those, 2797, sat in the eighty-five band: valid and specific, but shared with enough other players to be common. Only one answer reached a hundred, the ceremonial referee title Gyoji, and that outlier shows how thin the top of the field was. Everything at eighty-five earns the same, whether it is the Indonesian court servant Abdi dalem, the impersonator billed as Abraham Lincoln presenter, or the industrial-sounding Aircraft de-icer; the puzzle does not rank one above another. The 363 answers capped at sixty are the familiar ones, the broad labels most people reach for first, and choosing them means settling for the floor.